Category Archives: How I Learned The Facts of Life

Lessons from the Florida condo collapse

When the news of the Florida building collapse first hit Twitter, someone I follow avidly (he’s brilliant) questioned whether the cause was a bomb. (The past years since the 2016 election, with the pandemic topping off the extended nightmare atmosphere, … Continue reading

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Eager for some penis news, are you?

From Harper’s Weekly Review: Sand samples from Cerne Abbas revealed that the chalk pictograph of a man with an enormous penis wielding a club dates to the late Saxon period. “Formal graffiti charges” were filed against an Auckland man who … Continue reading

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The elected position of dogcatcher

Lately I’ve been seeing the word “dogcatcher” on social media. Not embedded in the pejorative, “You couldn’t be elected dogcatcher!” but along the lines of encouraging people, mostly Democrats, to run for any office of any size, even dogcatcher. It … Continue reading

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